Faust
This Hamburg collective pushed krautrock's experimental impulse further than almost anyone, recording in a converted schoolhouse and building abrasive, collage-based music that abandoned conventional song structure altogether. Faust belonged to the same restless post-'68 generation that produced Can and Kraftwerk, minus any interest in commercial compromise. Guitarist Hans-Joachim Irmler later described the intensity of the Hamburg scene's social life in blunt terms: walk into certain bars on a Monday, he said, and you were lucky to get out again by Wednesday. The band's budget-priced release The Faust Tapes carried that same anything-goes spirit to a generation of British post-punk musicians, who heard in its tape manipulation and radical deconstruction a blueprint for their own rule-breaking.
At a glance
- Active
- 1971–1975
- From
- Hamburg, West Germany
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In the issues
- German KrautrockSupporting cast · 1968-1975
German Krautrock is a music scene from West Germany (Düsseldorf, Cologne, Berlin), 1968–1975. Its principal artists include Kraftwerk, Can, Neu! and Tangerine Dream. This issue covers 10 essential albums and 12 dated events.
Family tree
Bands that shared members with Faust, and who.
- Ulan Bator1993–Amaury Cambuzat, Olivier Manchion